Homemade Butter

by Deb on August 6, 2010

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Marita August 6, 2010 at 8:14 am

That is fantastic. I’ve seen a few bloggers talking about making their own butter and I’m really looking forward to trying it out myself one day. After we move house though – things are a little too chaotic now.
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PlanningQueen August 6, 2010 at 11:27 am

Love this idea Deb. Might give it a try this week end. I really want my kids to understand that food doesn’t just come from shops!

Deb August 7, 2010 at 9:12 pm: I actually bought the cream to go with your scones! Then I realised we could make butter with it, and the girls loved it. It’s so light it goes with the slightly sweet scones perfectly. They turned out really well too, it’s nice to have a recipe the girls can do on their own.

Antonia August 6, 2010 at 12:33 pm

I can remember accidently making butter as a child when I was trying to help Mum whip cream for a desert! I read somewhere (I think in Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder), that in the olden days people used to grate carrot and squeeze the juice through a cloth to make their butter a brighter, prettier colour if they felt it was too pale.

Deb August 7, 2010 at 9:16 pm: I’ve done that! I can believe it about the carrots, our butter ended up very pale. Apparently the colour comes from what the cows were fed, so there’s nothing we can do to affect it other than add something. Carrots were on my list to colour paints with, I can see they’d do butter as well.

SenseiMattKlein August 8, 2010 at 12:09 pm

I might have to try this one. That creamy butter makes we want to whip up some pancakes and eat them all by myself. On second thought….maybe some scones.
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Annie August 8, 2010 at 1:05 pm

What a great idea and so simple! I haven’t let the kids use the electric beater yet but I guess there’s really no reason they can’t, they do know how to be careful once I’ve explained the risks. Maybe we’ll try doing it this way and then doing it in the jar and then comparing the differences

Kristine August 9, 2010 at 10:39 pm